Kilpatrick Stockton merging with Ca. firm
Press Release
Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Stockton, the fourth-largest law firm in the Triad and the eighth-largest law firm in the state, will merge with San Francisco-based Townsend and Townsend and Crew to become Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. The merger will be effective Jan. 1.
Bill Dorris of Kilpatrick Stockton will serve as chair of the merged firm. Diane Prucino of Kilpatrick Stockton and Maureen Sheehy of Townsend will serve as co-managing partners.
Kilpatrick Townsend will have about 650 attorneys in 17 offices across the nation, including in Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Raleigh.
The merger with Townsend comes one month after Kilpatrick Stockton announced its merger with Oakland-based construction firm Bell, Rosenberg & Hughes.
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Grounds for Divorce in Ohio - Sylkatis Law, LLC
A divorce in Ohio is filed when there is typically “fault” by one of the parties and party not at “fault” seeks to end the marriage. A court in Ohio may grant a divorce for the following reasons:
• Willful absence of the adverse party for one year
• Adultery
• Extreme cruelty
• Fraudulent contract
• Any gross neglect of duty
• Habitual drunkenness
• Imprisonment in a correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint
• Procurement of a divorce outside this state by the other party
Additionally, there are two “no-fault” basis for which a court may grant a divorce:
• When the parties have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation
• Incompatibility, unless denied by either party
However, whether or not the the court grants the divorce for “fault” or not, in Ohio the party not at “fault” will not get a bigger slice of the marital property.